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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordDecember 5, 2011
I just find this movement toward this 20 percent to me to be arbitrary.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey
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Editor's note · Context

Menendez criticizes the arbitrary nature of a proposed 20 percent threshold in risk assessment.

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